Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-11

CITY AND DISTRICT.
THE COLLEGIATE ALUMNE.
Their Session In This Cisv-whv Cos.
acge Bred Women are slow q MARI.
The members OF the Association OF COLLEGIATE
Aiumn@ ana number Of their friends, at the
Nauonaa Museum, Saturday afternoon, listened to
an ADDRESS oy Mrs Dr.. Backus. president of the
association, and to paper by Miss Ala W.
Foster, on 'SThe Relation of Women TO the GOV.
erning Boards and Faculties OF Colleges~
Dr. E. M. Gallaudet president of the Columbia
College for the deaf and dumb, smoke upon Invita-
yIon upon Inc subject Of higher education for
women Eaucat1cn. he said, should be regarded
as means to an end It may be carried so far as
to MI It's subject with ambition Tor the Impossible
must be considered and provided for in its
TO the general well being of society We must
not De misled by the false light OF mdividualism,
extreme, indiyidualism would prove The bane OF
our clViiza1on. SO developed 1t means disofgani-
za 1,S uecaaence, destruction to society.
teil US now Individual ambition, pleasure seeking
ana vice nrst ruled and then DESTROYED Greece and
tSe Unit Of Is s ees family not the that
CONSIDERED az social questions decided with refer
10 vneif bearing on the family. Under which
cation OF woman marshaHed, Does IL look to-
ward the advancement OF the individual st the
EXPENSE OF tne famiy7 Or does it teach the subor-
fa OF aspirations to the welfare OF
That II develops noble individuals is true; but
Wnas Is tne eject OF their example and teaching?
10 tne women preachers lawyers doctors, pro-
fessors and editors teach the great mass OF their
younger sisters that their own careers are excep-
noblest work Of woman is to be the center Of
life and love In family? Advanced education
has, doubtless inspired and ntted many women to
e1Ief professional life, and these have done and
will do good In the world. But II their success
and prominence shall teach the girls uf our coun-
Try tnat woman has higher or mere honorable
nature and by the love and devotion OF honest
men, then will the higher education Of woman
prove curse and not q blessing.
Saturday evening Mrs. Gen. Lander entertained
the alumn@ at her home on Capitol Hill, and last
evening Mrs. Wiles received them At her home in
citation went to Mt. Vernon.
The STAR has given some account OF the work
accomplished by the society in collecting health
was directed by Mrs. Annie Howes Barus. now OF
this city. The general results were summed I'D In
report by Hon Carroll d. Wright on the subject
that the female graduates OF our colleges and uni
verSties DO not seem 10 show as the result OF their
college studies and dut1es any marked difference
In general health from the average health likely
10 De reported by an equal number of women en-
gagged IN other kinds OF work. or in fact, OF women
The statistics collected showed that of the seven
hundred and five women college graduates who
responded 10 the circulars the average twenty
eight and half years, and OF the whole number
but 27.S per cent were married. The report sug.
geSts that the custom OF late marriages, which Is
gaining among our higher social classes viii prob
ably increase the number OF marriages among the
same seven hundred and I'VE graduates at sixty
years TO over 80 per cent II the Indications OF the
perceneages among Ine oder graduates can serve
several explanations may be given to account
for the sioWness OF the Alumne to adopt mar
red life. There may poSs bly, exist cogent reasons
why men fail to prefer college women for their
wives Certain clerical authors have threatened
the intellectual woman with the revenge OF men
II she did not forSake the immoral path OF know
ledge, and limited they would not look TO her for
cOinpanlOnSh1p and comfort. Undoubtedly there
exists IN the minds OF many men a dissemination
10 marry woman who may equal II not exceed
them in mental power. But there is more reason
to believe that the small number OF marriages oc-
curing among the AlumnH Is due to
THEIR OWN SENTIMENTS.
The average woman student graduates from COL
lege at between 90 and 23 years Of age With the
constant exercise her reflective powers have re-
ceived she is not then apt to fall victim to sud-
den impulse, and her actions are liable to be sub
mitted to the test OF much cool reflection. She
reels conscious she has powers at her disposal
which VIII enable her TO secure her own livelihood
II such an emergency presents ITSELF and the intel-
lectual resources at her command save her from
the grasp OF the Which the lives
conviction that her life may be passed uSerully
and happily without husband She will naturally
W dlltT utF 1uQSDCQQe0G SJaUe unless she
is sure OF sympathetic companionship or believes
she can best attain the purpose OF her being by
suning family cares the social odium which for
merry attached itself to SpinSterhOOd as indicative
OF frustrated hopes and failure longer exerts so
powerful an influence to drive women into matri-
mony, since 1t Is already recognized that many
women
RETAIN THE SINGLE s1ATR
from preference, as Offering them q field for use
fitness and happiness II not as intense at least as
wide as that OF married life. II one could subtract
from the total number OF marriages those that are
contracted SIMPLY as means Of livelihood or I'M
step, the percentage which would remain and
which could be counted as the number who mar
not average much higher than that which repre-
sents the matrimonial statistics OF college women.
The exceptional scarcity OF divorce among married
college women proves that the costs OF MatriinOny
were fully counted before the responsibility was
assumed. Recognizing the fact that late mar
riages are becoming an indispensable feature of
our modern life and that the notion that broader
mental culture detractS from the beauty OF wOE-
anliness is dying prejudice, there is no reason to
tain their low percentage OF marriage.
The Methodist Protestant Conference.
PkocEEDISGs , AT EAsroN, sATuRDAY-A DISCUSSION
UPON THE WORD CATHOLIC"
At Saturdays session OF the Maryland confer
ence, NJ P. Church, at Easton, Md, request from
the board Of trustees Of the Western Maryland
College that the endowment society waive the
priority of the mortgage upon the western Mary
land College to the extent Of seven thousand dol
lars to enable the board OF trustees to negotiate
loan upon mOrtgag to an amount not exceeding
that sum for the purpose OF erecting building
necessary for the growing demands OF the inSGasu-
tiOn, was approved.
resolution was adopted recommending to the
consideration OF the Mutual Relief Association the
propriety OF removing the Limitation OF age bear
Ing on membership In the association SO as to
make all members OF the conference and their
wives eligible to membership upon such scale as
the association may adopt, and thus make it a
conference mutual relief association. The COM
mittee On the subject OF presidential visitation
made report submitting resolution, which was
adopted, declaring 'tthat 1t Is the sense OF this
conference that the interests Of the district will be
better subserved by having the president to consult
his own judgment In the distribution OF his labOrS,
90 as to meet the necessity OF those charges as